He did not stay at the service station for long.
He merely learned a little about Almia by chatting with the people around him.
He discovered that Almia was not unable to develop, nor had it yet to begin developing. It had deliberately chosen not to develop, preserving its original state.
The same went for all three regions, including Fiore and Oblivia.
Because the Ranger Union had considered the harmonious coexistence of humans, Pokémon, and nature, it had not urbanized them on a large scale.
Instead, it had preserved nature's original appearance to a greater extent.
What did that mean?
It meant these three regions were enormous nature reserves, seeking harmonious coexistence among the three.
So did the people here agree with that?
—They did.
It even involved some information from the games.
In the games, Altru Inc., the predecessor of the Dark Team and Almia's energy company, had once wanted to redevelop Harbor Town.
Yet it had faced unanimous opposition from every resident of Harbor Town.
The people here simply were not interested in industrialized, modern cities.
They were even more extreme than Alola.
At least Alola still had plenty of modern cities.
Naturally, urbanization came to nothing.
Fortunately, there was no overt competitive relationship between regions in this world. Most people simply lived their own lives, and no other region tried to interfere.
Johto and Kanto were the same.
The two neighboring regions even held meetings together, yet they still remained mutually noninterfering. There was no talk of one day merging the two regions—taking the Kanto character from Kanto and the Johto character from Johto, then calling the combined region Kanto.
Kanto was Kanto, and Johto was still Johto.
Sketch Plateau lay in the northeastern part of Almia.
Far from the ocean and deep in the mountains,